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Night Train Top 40 Albums For December 2015

1.          John Scofield – Past Present (Impulse)

2.          Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra - Live in Cuba (Blue Engine)

3.          Band of Bones - Stomp! (Dave Chamberlain)

4.          Maria Schneider Orchestra - The Thompson Fields (Artist Share)

5.          Dee Dee Bridgewater - Dee Dee's Feather (OKeh)

6.          Oran Etkin - What's New (Motema)

7.          Andrea Brachfeld – Lotus Blossom (JazzHeads)

8.          Fred Hersch – Solo (Palmetto)

9.          Mike LeDonne - Awwl-RIGHT! (Savant)

10.      Michael Kocour – Spiffy (Michael Kocour)

11.      Christian McBride Trio - Live at the Village Vanguard (Mack Avenue)

12.      Stanley Clarke/Bireli Lagrene/Jean-Luc Ponty - D-Stringz (Impulse)

13.      Ben Patterson – For Once in My Life (Origin)

14.      John Ellis & Double Wide – Charm (Paradise Light)

15.      Gilad Hekselman - Homes (Jazz Village)

16.      Chick Corea & Bela Fleck – Two (Concord)

17.      Charles Ruggiero - As Heard on TV (Rondette)

18.      Chester Thompson Trio - Simpler Times (Joyful Noise)

19.      Ron Carter & the WDR Big Band – My Personal Songbook (In + Out)

20.      Terell Stafford - Brotherlee Love (Capri)

21.      Frank Kohl Quartet - Invisible Man (Pony Boy)

22.      Michael Dease - Decisions (Posi-Tone)

23.      Cory Weeds/Jeff Hamilton Trio - This Happy Madness (Cellar Live)

24.      Joey DeFrancesco - Trip Mode (High Note)

25.      Ralph Irizarry & Timbalaye - 20th Anniversary (BKS)

26.      Eric Alexander - The Real Thing (High Note)

27.      Bob James & Nathan East - The New Cool (Yamaha)

28.      George Papageorge - Snowstorm Blues (George Papageorge)

29.      Houston Person - Something Personal (High Note)

30.      Pat Metheny, Jan Garbarek, Gary Burton – Hommage a Eberhard Weber (ECM)

31.      OJT – New Standards for the Green Lady (Jazz Daddy)

32.      Cowboys & Frenchmen - Rodeo (Outside In Music)

33.      Amina Figarova - Blue Whisper (Jazzed Media)

34.      Ray Martinez - Ray Martinez' Legacy (Tropical Note)

35.      London/Meader/Pramuk/Ross - The Royal Bopsters Project (Motema)

36.      Tom Collier - Across the Bridge (Origin)

37.      Tom Harrell - First Impressions (High Note)

38.      Big Picture Holiday - Shimmer and Melt (Ropeadope)

39.      Lorraine Feather - Flirting with Disaster (Jazzed Media)

40.      Karrin Allyson - Many A New Day (Motema)

Chris Heim produces and hosts Global Village, a nationally and internationally distributed world music show; the nightly jazz show Night Train, and Crossroads, KMUW’s twice-weekly blues and R&B show. Chris is also a critic and freelance writer whose work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Utne, Global Rhythm, Dirty Linen, and Option, among others.